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About Marathi

Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language. It is spoken by the Marathi people from most of the part of the region called western India - called Maharashtra. It is one of the the official language recognized by Government of India. This language fluent speakers are spread all over the world they are about 90 million in number. In the overall ranking in the India Marathi stands 4th most spoken language and in the world it stands 15th most spoken language. Marathi has its roots in the oldest of the regional literatures in Indo-Aryan languages. (AD 1000). And it is estimated to be around 1300 years old. Marathi is considered to be evolved from Sanskrit through Prakrit and Apabhramsha. The grammar and syntax is similar to Pali and Prakrit. In old times, Marathi was also called Maharashtri, Marhatti, Mahratti. The features of Marathi linguistic culture include Marathi drama (Natak) (Sangget Natak), the regularly arranged discourses called 'Vasant Vyakhyanmala' (Lectures in Spring), The folk dance in Marathi is also famous and popularly known as 'Lavani',